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Definition: TO LAUGH AT |
TO LAUGH AT1. To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. --Pope. |
Crosswords: TO LAUGH AT |
| English words defined with "TO LAUGH AT": Bejape. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO LAUGH AT": Laughing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO LAUGH AT": Bejape ♦ Irrision. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Jeez you don't have to laugh at me. (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) I don't know whether to laugh at that kind of megalomania, or simply cry. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) I'm going to laugh at you someday, Gerald Howells. (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; writing credit: Karen Leigh Hopkins) | |
Lyrics | You like to laugh at me (Only Wanna Be With You; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) Set me on a straight path, what about I had to laugh at her (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza | I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. |
Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais | I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. |
Seneca | It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. |
Thomas Szasz | When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expression using "TO LAUGH AT": it is nothing to laugh at. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO LAUGH AT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | lachen über (laugh off). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | nevet vmin, kinevet vkit (have sy in derision, to be merry at sy, to be merry on sy, to be merry with sy, to hold sy in derision, to make merry over sy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 笑い飛ばす . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わらいとばす. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay aughlay atay e ceva serios (it is nothing to laugh at). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | derideo, inrideo, rideo risi risum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-l-o-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: taught, tautog. | |
-4 letters: aloha, altho, aught, galah, gault, ghaut, ghoul, gloat, glout, gutta, laugh, loath, lotah, lough, ought, total, tough. | |
-5 letters: agha, alga, alto, auto, gala, gaol, ghat, glut, goal, goat, gout, halo, halt, haul, haut, holt, hula, lath, lota, loth, lout, oath, tala, taut, that, thou, thug, toga, tola, tolu, tout. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 4C 41 55 47 48 41 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001000 00100000 01000001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   L A U G H   A T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 004C 0041 0055 0047 0048 0041 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54492463555414223554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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